ILLUSTRATIONS Ixi 



FACING 

 PAGE 



Figure 15. A typical view of the National Forest coun- 

 try in Montana. Forest Service trail up 

 Squaw Peak Patrol Station, Cabinet National 

 Forest 54 



Figure 16. Forest Rangers repairing a bridge over a 

 mountain stream. Arapaho National For- 

 est, Colorado 56 



Figure 17. A forest fire lookout station on the top of 

 Lassen Peak, elevation 10,400 feet, Lassen 

 National Forest, California. The cabin was 

 first erected complete in a carpenter's shop 

 in Red Bluif, about 50 miles away. It was 

 then taken to pieces and packed to the foot 

 of Lassen Peak. On the last two miles of 

 its journey it was packed piece by piece on 

 forest officers' backs and finally reassembled 

 on the topmost pinnacle of the mountain. 

 Photo by the author 58 



Figure 18. Forest officers and laborers building a wagon 

 road through trap rock. Payette National 

 Forest, Idaho 58 



Figure 19. Drying pine cones preparatory to extracting 

 the seed. Near Plumas National Forest, 

 California 66 



Figure 20. Extracting tree seed from the cones. The 

 dried cones are shaken around until the seeds 

 drop out through the wire mesh which forms 

 the sides of the machine 66 



Figure 21. Preparing the ground with a spring-tooth 

 harrow for the broadcast sowing of tree 

 seeds. Battlement National Forest, Colo- 

 rado. This view was taken at approximately 

 10,000 feet elevation. Photo by the author 70 



Figure 22. A local settler delivering a load of Lodge- 

 pole pine cones at the seed extractory, for 



